[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 123 (Thursday, July 20, 2017)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D813-D814]
From the Congressional Record Online through GPO
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
An original bill (S. 1609) entitled, “Energy and Water Development
Appropriations Act, 2018”; and
An original bill (S. 1603) entitled, “Agriculture, Rural
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2018”.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
The nominations of General Paul J. Selva, USAF, for reappointment to
the grade of general and reappointment to be Vice Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, David Joel Trachtenberg, of Virginia, to be a
Principal Deputy Under Secretary, Owen West, of Connecticut, to be an
Assistant Secretary, Ryan McCarthy, of Illinois, to be Under Secretary
of the Army, and Charles Douglas Stimson, of Virginia, to be General
Counsel of the Department of the Navy, all of the Department of
Defense; and
3,878 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a
hearing to examine housing finance reform, focusing on maintaining
access for small lenders, after receiving testimony from Brenda Hughes,
First Federal Savings, Twin Falls, Idaho, on behalf of the American
Bankers Association; Tim Mislansky, Wright-Patt Credit Union, Dayton,
Ohio, on behalf of the Credit Union National Association; Jack E.
Hopkins, CorTrust Bank, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on behalf of the
Independent Community Bankers of America; Chuck Purvis, Coastal Federal
Credit Union, Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the National
Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions; Wes Hunt, Community
Mortgage Lenders of America, Gainesville, Georgia; and William
Giambrone, Platinum Home Mortgage, Grayslake, Illinois, on behalf of
the Community Home Lenders Association.
FIRSTNET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet concluded a
hearing to examine an update on FirstNet, after receiving testimony
from Mark L. Goldstein, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues,
Government Accountability Office; Curtis Brown, Virginia Deputy
Secretary of Homeland Security and Public Safety, Richmond; Michael
Poth, First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), Reston, Virginia;
Chris Sambar, AT&T Inc., Dallas, Texas; and Damon Allen Darsey,
University of Mississippi Medical Center Center for Emergency Services,
Jackson.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a
hearing to examine the nominations of Brenda Burman, of Arizona, to be
Commissioner of Reclamation, who was introduced by Senator Flake, and
Susan Combs, of Texas, who was introduced by Senator Cornyn, and
Douglas W. Domenech, of Virginia, who was introduced by Representative
Radewagen, both to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of
the Interior, and Paul Dabbar, of New York, to be Under Secretary for
Science, David S. Jonas, of Virginia, to be General Counsel, and Mark
Wesley Menezes, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary, who was introduced
by Senator Cassidy, all of the Department of Energy, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
AMERICA'S CRUMBLING WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries,
Water, and Wildlife concluded a hearing to examine innovative financing
and funding, focusing on addressing America's crumbling water
infrastructure, after receiving testimony from Andrew Kricun, Camden
County Municipal Utilities Authority, Camden, New Jersey, on behalf of
the National Association of Clean Water Agencies; Josh Ellis,
Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, Illinois; and Mike Frazee,
Rogers, Arkansas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of David J. Kautter, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to
examine the nominations of Kay Bailey Hutchison, of Texas, to be United
States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador, who was
introduced by Senators Cornyn and Cruz, Kelly Knight Craft, of
Kentucky, to be Ambassador to Canada, who was introduced by Senator
McConnell, Robert Wood Johnson IV, of New York, to be Ambassador to the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, who was
introduced by Senator Corker, Lewis M. Eisenberg, of Florida, to be
Ambassador to the Italian Republic, and to serve concurrently and
without additional
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compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of San Marino, who was
introduced by Senator Rubio, and Kathleen Troia McFarland, of New York,
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, who was introduced by
former Senator Lieberman, all of the Department of State, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Christopher A. Wray, of Georgia, to be Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Beth Ann Williams, of New Jersey, to
be an Assistant Attorney General, John W. Huber, to be United States
Attorney for the District of Utah, Justin E. Herdman, to be United
States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and John E. Town, to
be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, all of
the Department of Justice, and Trevor N. McFadden, of Virginia, to be
United States District Judge for the District of Columbia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nominations of Thomas G. Bowman, of Florida, to be Deputy
Secretary, Brooks D. Tucker, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary
(Congressional and Legislative Affairs), and James Byrne, of Virginia,
to be General Counsel, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and
Michael P. Allen, of Florida, Amanda L. Meredith, of Virginia, and
Joseph L. Toth, of Wisconsin, each to be a Judge of the United States
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the
intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.